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A) Samuel Clemens B) William Shakespeare C) John Adams D) Thomas Jefferson
A) Missouri B) New York C) California D) Texas
A) Moby Dick B) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn C) Pride and Prejudice D) The Great Gatsby
A) The Innocents Abroad B) Life on the Mississippi C) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer D) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A) 1850 B) 1876 C) 1885 D) 1900
A) The Prince and the Pauper B) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer C) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court D) Huckleberry Finn
A) All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. B) To be or not to be, that is the question. C) I have a dream. D) The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.
A) Riverboat Pilot B) Farmer C) Lawyer D) Doctor
A) Emily Dickinson B) Harriet Beecher Stowe C) Olivia Langdon D) Louisa May Alcott
A) Ben Rogers B) Tom Blankenship C) Huck Finn D) Joe Harper
A) 1920 B) 1910 C) 1900 D) 1930
A) Hartford, Connecticut B) Chicago, Illinois C) New York City, New York D) Los Angeles, California
A) 1876 B) 1884 C) 1894 D) 1865
A) Printing press B) Paige Compositor C) Steamboat engine D) Typewriter
A) Orion Clemens B) Charles Dudley Warner C) Henry Huttleston Rogers D) Grant Marsh
A) Benjamin Clemens B) Orion Clemens C) Pleasant Hannibal Clemens D) Henry Clemens
A) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer B) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court C) King Leopold's Soliloquy D) Pudd'nhead Wilson
A) World War I B) The Spanish-American War C) The Revolutionary War D) The Civil War
A) A. B. Chambers B) Nevada Belle C) Mississippi Queen D) Hannibal Clipper
A) Society for Psychical Research B) American Anti-Imperialist League C) Virginia City Territorial Enterprise D) International Typographical Union
A) Colonialism B) Explosion C) Heart attack D) Pneumonia
A) 1870 B) 1867 C) 1861 D) 1864
A) New York B) San Francisco C) A mining town in Virginia D) The Mormon community in Salt Lake City
A) Teacher B) Journalist at Territorial Enterprise C) Miner on the Comstock Lode D) Stagecoach driver
A) Dan DeQuille B) Charles Langdon C) Samuel Clemens D) Mark Twain
A) "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" B) "The Innocents Abroad" C) "Roughing It" D) "Letter From Carson – re: Joe Goodman; party at Gov. Johnson's; music"
A) Roughing It B) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn C) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer D) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A) His experiences in Angels Camp, California B) A trip to Hawaii C) His journey across the Great Plains D) A Mediterranean cruise
A) The Saturday Press B) Territorial Enterprise C) New-York Tribune D) Sacramento Union
A) Photographer B) Travel agent C) Reporter D) Editor
A) Hartford, Connecticut B) Elmira, New York C) New York City D) Buffalo, New York
A) W.E.B. Du Bois B) Sojourner Truth C) Harriet Tubman D) Frederick Douglass
A) History trivia game B) Paige typesetting machine C) Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments D) Self-pasting scrapbook
A) Alexander Graham Bell B) George Westinghouse C) Thomas Edison D) Nikola Tesla
A) Fiji B) Australia C) New Zealand D) Honolulu, Hawaii
A) Following the Equator B) The Innocents Abroad C) Life on the Mississippi D) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A) Henry Rogers B) Ina Coolbrith C) George Washington Cable D) Dorothy Quick
A) Siege of Baler B) Moro Crater Massacre C) Battle of Manila Bay D) Bataan Death March
A) Ulysses S. Grant B) Henry Huttleston Rogers C) Thomas Lounsbury D) Charles L. Webster
A) Labor rights. B) Prohibition. C) Women's suffrage. D) Abolition of slavery.
A) $471,000 B) $300,000 C) $750,000 D) $600,000
A) Newberry Library B) Tulane University C) Buffalo & Erie County Public Library D) St. Louis Mercantile Library
A) Livy B) Clara C) Jean D) Susy
A) Scribner's Magazine B) Collier's Weekly C) The Atlantic Monthly D) Harper's Bazaar
A) Harper & Brothers B) The Ash Ranch Press C) Charles L. Webster and Company D) The American Publishing Company
A) 'I created it independently without any influence.' B) 'I confiscated the ancient mariner's discarded one.' C) 'He gave me permission to use it.' D) 'It was a gift from Captain Sellers himself.'
A) Danton B) Marat C) Louis XVI D) Robespierre
A) 'Sieur Louis de Conte' B) 'Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass' C) 'John Snook' D) 'Josh'
A) The Territorial Enterprise B) The San Francisco Alta California C) The New York Saturday Press D) The Virginia Daily Union
A) Baptist B) Methodist C) Catholic D) Presbyterian
A) 1916 B) 1884 C) 1895 D) 1907
A) One B) Two C) Four D) Three
A) The Century Magazine B) Harper's Magazine C) Scribner's Magazine D) Atlantic Monthly
A) French Revolution B) On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History C) Sartor Resartus D) The Life of John Sterling
A) India B) South Africa C) Egypt D) the Congo Free State
A) "Die Schrecken der Deutschen Sprache" B) "Das Wunder der Französischen Sprache" C) "Der Zauber des Englischen" D) "Die Freude der Italienischen Sprache"
A) Independent B) Democratic C) Republican D) Libertarian
A) Chronicling historical events B) Creating scientific literature C) Writing political essays D) Writing light, humorous verse
A) 1910 B) 1908 C) 1906 D) 1904
A) Reducing taxes on authors' incomes B) Creating public domain status for older works C) Extending copyright protection to the author's lifetime plus 50 years. D) Implementing stricter plagiarism laws
A) Jane Austen B) George Eliot C) James Fenimore Cooper D) Robert Louis Stevenson
A) Jacobin B) Sansculotte C) Bourbon D) Girondin
A) Keynesian economics B) Laissez faire C) Socialism D) Protectionism
A) Poets' Circle, Humorists' Haven B) Shakespeare Society, Literary Lions C) Dramatists Guild, Comedy Enthusiasts D) Authors' Club, Beefsteak Club, Vagabonds
A) Rendering colloquial speech B) Focusing solely on abstract themes C) Using complex, archaic language D) Writing in a formal, academic tone
A) Sacramento Union B) Virginia Daily Union C) San Francisco Alta California D) New York Saturday Press
A) vice-president B) secretary C) president D) treasurer
A) 'Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass' B) 'John Snook' C) 'Josh' D) 'Sieur Louis de Conte'
A) Imperial College London B) University of London C) Oxford University D) Cambridge University
A) Alta California B) Ajax C) Quaker City D) Territorial Enterprise
A) Missouri Lodge No. 100 B) Polar Star Lodge No. 79 A.F.&A.M. C) Nevada Lodge No. 75 D) St. Louis Lodge No. 50
A) The American Publishing Company B) Harper & Brothers C) Charles L. Webster and Company D) Pennyroyal Press
A) As a place devoid of any cultural significance. B) As an extraordinary country visited by the sun, where only man is vile. C) As a land of peace and prosperity. D) As a paradise untouched by human corruption.
A) Stormfield B) Elmira Manor C) Hartford House D) Buffalo Estate
A) Royalists B) Sansculottes C) Girondins D) Jacobins
A) Harvard University B) Yale University C) Princeton University D) Oxford University
A) Enthusiastic B) Critical C) Supportive D) Indifferent
A) Virginia City Writers B) Silver-tongued Orators C) Sagebrush School D) New York Press Society
A) Independents B) Mugwumps C) Republicans D) Democrats
A) Primarily liberal B) Centrist C) More conservative than liberal D) Socialist
A) Captain Isaiah Sellers B) An anonymous journalist from New Orleans C) Samuel Clemens himself before adopting it D) A fictional character created by Mark Twain
A) Adventure and exploration B) Friendship and loyalty C) Travel and discovery D) Social commentary through role reversal
A) 1980 B) 2010 C) 2000 D) 1990
A) Agriculture B) Technology C) Military conquest D) Religious reform
A) The Atlantic Monthly B) Virginia Daily Union C) New York Saturday Press D) San Francisco Alta California
A) Standard Ebooks B) Faded Page (Canada) C) Project Gutenberg D) LibriVox
A) They were never spoken publicly B) They were written in an unknown language C) Many were lost or not recorded D) They were all destroyed by critics
A) A Presbyterian Church B) A hospital C) A library D) A school
A) The Mysterious Stranger B) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn C) Pudd'nhead Wilson D) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A) Civil liberties B) Economic freedoms C) Personal political rights D) Freedom of speech
A) 'Huckleberry Finn' B) 'Life on the Mississippi' C) 'Tom Sawyer' D) 'The Prince and the Pauper'
A) London, England B) Vienna, Austria C) Belgravia, London D) Sanna, Sweden |